In northern folklore the selkie sheds a seal skin to live as a human and longs to return to the sea, so it stands for a true nature kept hidden or held by someone else.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.